The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1887-01-08
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From that hospitabe home no man va.
turned away, Like the one that succeeded
it, and the third one now on the ground, il
sheltered many guest and hundreds have
eaten at the table. Not always, however,
without cost At that early day family sup
plies were not ordered by telephone. A 20
miles ride 20 the grist mill in cold weather,
with liability Of waiting two days for your
turn, was an occasional necessity. The larder
WAS supplied at times by a streak Of good
luck Once, returning of Saturday, at
tention was called to flock of cranes, max.
ing great ado no, far away. Going thither
the dominic found they had corner on a
badger, out on the prairie II cane settled
the discussion on the part of the badger and
twenty pounds of fresh meat were taken
home for the Sunday dinner. Three travel.
ers from Ottawa happened in" at dinner.
time. At other times and often the coffee
mill furnished the -four for the biscuit; once
for six weeks, when the mill at Dayton was
frozen up, it ground the buckwhear for their
pancakes. In short the cotfee.mill in those
times WAS a serviceable piece of furniture,
seldom frozen up and always ready to do
good turn. If, TO the sad surprise Of the
children, there were not always biscuits
enough when they had company "to 20
round il WASH I SO with the coffee mill. 1t
may have been cranky, or had poor de-
livery" but it never went back" on a
friend
HOW HE ESCAPED BEING RICH
He put his money into timber land.
Twenty five acres ut twenty FIVE dollars On
acre That money would have bought five
hundred acres of fine prairie. But every
farm WAS supposed to need timber. Prof
Turner of Jacksonville had spent money and
time in trying TO find something that would
make hedge. There could be no schools un
worth something. DR.. D. Nelson, the great
preacher, told him of a plant in Texas that
he believed would make q hedge. Turner
sent two men and team there, but they
found the oranges killed and worthless.
They got only two quarts of seed. Next
year he succeeded better, and finally It was
believed that Turner's folly" had solved
the problem in making the prairies hsbita-
Bile for families, and schools possible
Bsrbed wire was not dreamed Of then and
there were no canals or railroads to bring in
fencing material. Having provided himself
a home the Elder helped many others to
locate. He could not at once, on transfer,
be received in full connection. by the Iii.
nois Conference. They wanted only q class
OF men that
GOULD STRIKE FIRE UNDER WATER
Mr.. Batcheller was finally given . charge.
In 1889 he was assigned to Ottawa. For
time service was held in the unfinished
upper rooms of the Ottawa House, and the
landlord rang the dinner bell to call the
people to the gospel feast then in the C. H.
in the second story of which Woodruff
llVeu WIN MS itsiuiiy'
THE EARLIEST PREACHERS
preceding or accompanying him we're Par.
son Gridey 1882, who came with large
gospel tent, for revival meetings. Mr..
Griaey lived in a cabin on the south bluff,
tho ruins of which are still seen. Samuel
Chase, Nahum Gould, Elder Powell, Stephen
Beggs, still living in Psnfeld, who Joined
Missouri Conference in 1924 and Illinois in
ls4l; John St. Clair, from Kentucky. But
earlier than ALT was Jesse Walker, in the
autumn Of 1925. He came to Southern Hi.
neis in 1906, worked up as far as Peoria in
1924. He had at Mission Point an Indian
school of Pottswatomies, and twenty-five
or thirty pupils. In 1852 he was sent to
Chicago and died there Oct. 9Th, 1885.
In 1899 or 40 William True made tri-
angle to be struck with hammer), hung it
I'D and made it serve for bell. 1t could
be heard all over town
At that early day Dayton had good pros
poets of becoming great. 1t was no rare
thing to see the steamboats, in Ottawa.
II have seen four large ones in sight al
once there" 81 continued work until
ls45 or '46, when having fever | completely
broke down and lost my voice; people
thought | should soon die. For two years
engaged IN the tible work probably
visited every house in the county. l have
lone duty as minister far and wide,
to the east line of the state. Mar
-iages, h"ptisms, funerals In the cholera
lines of 1850 | visited the sick and helped
% bury the dead One hundred of my &C
3uaintances, living within two miles of me,
have passed away, one entire generation of
settlers And the entire population of the
whole earth has been three times changed
born. lived and died) three entire genera
ions, during my one lifetime"
In 1868 the wife died. Fifty-two years
If married life In 1872 he brought to his
home as wife, Mrs. Ruhamsh Sampson,
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